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By Edmund Blair and Aaron Maasho Reuters/Reuters – Somali government soldiers stand at the scene of a suicide bomb attack outside the United Nations compound in the capital Mogadishu, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta By Edmund Blair and Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Somalia’s president said he wanted the U.N. Security Council to extend a...

Peel Region’s most-wanted fugitive is negotiating his surrender to police after evading authorities for nearly two years over allegations he struck and killed a Mississauga gas station attendant during a gas-and-dash robbery. SUPPLIED PHOTO Abdullahi Mohamoud, 24, of Mississauga, is wanted in the 2011 gas-and-dash death of a gas station attendant. By: Louie Rosella Peel Region’s...

Afgoye and Mogadishu, Somalia Joe DeCapua Last updated on: January 22, 2014 12:09 PM A former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia says he thinks it’s a “mistake” for Ethiopian troops to join the AMISOM force in Somalia. AMISOM is the African Union Mission in Somalia. David Shinn is an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of...

Senior war crimes prosecutors say photographs and documents provide ‘clear evidence’ of systematic killing of 11,000 detainees By Ian Black Calls for Assad or other officials to face justice at the international criminal court in The Hague have foundered on the problem that Syria is not a member of the court. Photograph: Reuters Syrian government...

Article by: RANDY FURST , Star Tribune Hundreds of Somalis are struggling to get their families reunited in the United States. Amina Awnur has been trying for five years to get the State Department to issue her husband a visa so he can leave Africa and join her. Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii. Amina Awnur is in Willmar. Her ­husband is...

Onetime rising star denies allegations that he pocketed clandestine fees paid by adults to use Minneapolis’ Currie Park youth soccer fields. By Steve Brandt A refugee from Somalia’s civil war who arrived in Minneapolis speaking no English 12 years ago, Hashim Yonis soon became a rising star. He graduated from Edison High School and then St. Olaf...

Marsha Lederman A moment can change everything. So can serendipity, circumstances, luck – where you are, who you’re with, whether you remembered to load batteries into your camera. Everything changed for Paul Watson, with ramifications shooting far beyond his own life, when he photographed a horrific scene in Somalia in 1993: the corpse of a...